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dry fishing
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a method of commercial fishing involving the drying of the catch on flakes.
See: dry fishery
Quotations
1930
Increasing demands for improvement in handling fish led to the development of dry fishing which reduced the outlay on such commodities as salt, and economized shipping . . . . Dry fishing stimulated the search for harbours suitable for drying and preferably with supplies of bait.
1963
In dry fishing, the fish were dried on platforms called flakes before being lightly salted and shipped, and this of course required landing, and a brief season's residence on shore.